1. Hard Fresh
Aired: 4/27/2001
“I’m a Doll. My job is to comfort you… I’ll give you a kiss. That’s all I can do.”
In the ruined, lifeless city of Organ, only machines remain, endlessly acting out their old programming. Malice@Doll—built solely to satisfy the sexual desires of her long-dead masters—awakens again and again to a world with no one left to serve. One day, drawn by the illusion of a mysterious girl, she enters a forbidden layer and is attacked by a grotesque being, the Vessel. Violated and shut down, Malice reboots—transformed. Her synthetic body is now warm flesh, human, erotic, alive. Her kiss, once meaningless protocol, now spreads a corrupting, sensual virus of life and flesh. Her transformation marks the beginning of a sensual infection, as Malice’s kiss begins to awaken, mutate, and destroy a mechanical world meant to remain unchanged forever.